Speakers
BROOKE
WARNER
Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What's Your Book?, and three books on memoir. Brooke is a TEDx speaker, weekly podcaster (of “Write-minded” with co-host Grant Faulkner of NaNoWriMo), and publishes a weekly newsletter, Writerly Things, on Substack. Brooke is the former executive editor of Seal Press and writes a regular column for Publishers Weekly.
ANNIE
TUCKER
Ghostwriter, Editor, Understory Founder
Annie Tucker is the founder of Understory and has written and edited more than eight hundred books. She currently specializes in ghostwriting memoirs and other works of nonfiction for clients all over the world. Previously, she was the managing editor of Juxtapoz art magazine, an executive editor for Meredith Corporation, and a developmental editor for Seal Press and She Writes Press, among other publishers. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard University and a Professional Sequence in Editing degree from UC Berkeley and lives in Park City.
APRIL
BOSSHARD
April Bosshard is a writer, story coach, and developmental editor who has been referred to as a “story whisperer” and a “story genie” because of her deep understanding of writing principles and craft. Through her business, Deep Story Design, she hosts courses and retreats online and internationally while also working with individual clients. April holds a BA in film and television from the University of British Columbia and has worked on feature films, documentaries, and TV shows. She has written novels, short stories, poems, and nonfiction essays; has contributed to four traditionally published books on journaling and creativity coaching, including The Great Book of Journaling; and has also published indie fiction under pen names in the young adult, new adult, racy romance, and cozy mystery genres.
Jeannine
Ouellette
Jeannine Ouellette’s memoir, The Part That Burns, was a 2021 Kirkus Best 100 Indie Book and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Women’s Literature, with starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Her award-winning essays and fiction appear widely in literary journals, including Los Angeles Review of Books, Narrative, Masters Review, North American Review, Calyx, and more. She teaches writing at the University of Minnesota and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, as well as through Writing in the Dark, a creative writing program she founded in 2012, now enhanced by her “Writing in the Dark” Substack newsletter, with many thousands of devoted followers. Jeannine is also working on a novel.
Jeanne
Blasberg
Jeanne Blasberg is an award-winning author and essayist. Daughter of a Promise is her third novel. Her second novel, The Nine, was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense, and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards. Her debut novel, Eden, won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction. Jeanne cochairs the board of the Boston Book Festival and serves on the executive committee of GrubStreet in Boston, one of the country’s preeminent creative writing centers. When not in New England, she splits her time between Park City, Utah, and growing organic vegetables in Verona, Wisconsin.
STUART
HORWITZ
Stuart Horwitz is a ghostwriter, independent editor, founder of Book Architecture, and author of three acclaimed books on writing: Blueprint Your Bestseller (Penguin/Perigee), which The Writer magazine named one of the year’s best books about writing. Stuart’s articles and personal essays have appeared on TODAY.com and in publications including Hippocampus and Writer’s Digest. He holds a master’s degree in literary aesthetics from New York University and in East Asian studies from Harvard University.
Joshua
Mohr
Author, Editor, Stanford University Professor
Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including Damascus, which the New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written Some Things That Meant the World to Me, one of O, the Oprah Magazine’s 10 Terrific Reads of 2009, and All This Life, winner of the Northern California Book Award. Termite Parade was an editors’ choice on the New York Times Best Seller List. His latest book, a memoir entitled Model Citizen, is an Amazon Editors’ Pick. In his Hollywood life, he’s sold projects to AMC, ITV, and Amblin Entertainment.
Elizabeth
Hines
Elizabeth G. Hines is an author and editor whose work has appeared in numerous online publications. Along with her mother, Carol Jenkins, she is the coauthor of the best-selling biography Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire, winner of a 2004 Nonfiction Book Honor award from the American Library Association. Hines is also the editor of the 2022 reproductive-justice anthology Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America, a collection of 38 powerful voices on the fight for reproductive freedom in the 21st century. Hines holds a BA from Yale University and conducted her graduate studies at Harvard University. She lives in New York City with her family.
Grant
Faulkner
Grant Faulkner is an executive producer on the upcoming TV show America’s Next Great Author, cofounder of 100 Word Story, cohost of the Write-Minded podcast, and the former executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). He recently published The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story. He has also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide; Fissures, Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story, and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies. His essays on creativity have been published in the New York Times, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer.
